Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 09:00:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: moroney@gil.com.au (Phil Moroney) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copying files to and from a floppy Message-ID: <199604030700.JAA12447@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <3162B0E2.394E@www.gil.com.au>
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> > Having successfully installed FreeBSD and being new to > the UNIX enviornment, could you please tell me how I > can copy files to and from my floppy disks? Obviously > using "A:" or "B:" won't work. You have several choices exchanging files between DOS and unix - I assume that's what you want when you are saying A: or B:. 1. Get a DOS formatted floppy, insert it into drive 0 or 1 and type: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt (or fd1 resp.) after doing that you can cp files back and forth to/from /mnt. Once you are done, don't forget to umount /mnt 2. You can use the mtools mdir a: mread a:*.* . The mtools are in the ports section of the FreeBSD distribution and can be found under ports/emulators/mtools. Go there and type make all install. (provided you have the appropiate files in your /usr/ports tree). 3. Get a DOS tar - there are several PD versions - and exchange files via raw floppy devices: writing to floppy: tar cvf /dev/rfd0a files reading from floppy: tar xvf /dev/rfd0a > > I think I have to use FTP for the transfers, but I don'r > know what command I have to use once I am at the ftp> prompt. ftp is only for exchanging files between computers over a network, not between devices on a computer - if I understand your question correctly. > > > > Phil Moroney > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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